To the skeptics of climate change I offer links to two stories in this morning’s wrap up of what’s happening to the world from Environmental Health News.
What struck me as interesting and terrifying is that the stories are from different parts of the globe, and the danger is equally devastating.
In Nepal’s Himalayas, scientists report that [...]

Clinicians from around the world are reporting a very severe form of the Swine Flu and they’re finding it in younger, otherwise healthy people, says the World Health Organization.
Infectious disease specialists say that in these patients the virus directly infects the lung, causing severe respiratory failure.
Survival for these patients depend on highly specialized and demanding [...]

The August recess has emptied Washington of most of the elected grownups, but a sparring match among top public health activists over a study on nanomaterial in sunscreens lingers on.
You’ve got to love it when three white-hat-wearing senior scientists skirmish over a study written by three other presumed good guys.
Last week, I wrote about the [...]

I felt that I should write about the passing of Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy or Teddy, as much of the world called him, even to his face.
It seems that everyone who was ever a reporter or writer of any stature has already pontificated about the lion of the senate who will roar no more.
I actually [...]

Laptop computers often get hot, and we know it’s a widespread problem because computer stores and websites offer a wide selection of fans and cooling devices.
In British Columbia there have been several fires linked to overheated laptops, but now the BC Coroners Service has blamed a death on the problem.

The coroner completed a six-month-long [...]

Those living beside the chemical plants in the small towns along West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley can breathe a bit easier and maybe sleep a little better.
Bayer CropScience announced that it eliminate 80 percent of the of the country’s largest stockpile of methyl isocyanate.
Ken Ward, the skillful environmental reporter for the Charleston Gazette, writes that Bayer [...]

For decades, hard rock mining, the search for gold, silver and other precious metals, brought people, industry and wealth to Montana. But corporations funding the mining, mostly foreign-owned, abandoned the played-out mines, leaving once beautiful mountains as gutted waste sites and pristine streams poisoned.  Laura Lundquist, a contributing writer for coldtruth.com, shares her opinions on [...]

Cutting edge nanoscience has put an end to the icky white coating of old sunscreens that that prevented the sun from harming your skin.
But scientists for consumer and environmental groups say that while nanosized sun-blocking ingredients like titanium dioxide and zinc oxide now rub on clear instead of white, very few of the engineered materials [...]

The term “beyond a shadow of a doubt” became a bit more confusing this week when Dan Frumkin and his team of Israeli forensic specialists reported that DNA evidence can be fabricated and planted at crime scenes.
Frumkin wrote in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics that DNA evidence is key to the conviction or exoneration [...]

Think about this, something beneficial to health from the villainous tobacco plant.
Scientists have used a new production technology to develop a vaccine for norovirus, the unpleasant package of diarrhea and vomiting that has destroyed the costly holidays of thousands of cruise ship vacationers.
Charles Arntzen today told the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society [...]